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SUMMARY:An Evening with Jon Clinch and Jeffrey Nichols: THE GENERAL AND JULIA
DESCRIPTION:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore and the National Civil War Museum are honored to welcome author Jon Clinch to Harrisburg for an in-person conversation and signing on his new historical novel\, The General and Julia. In this superb work of historical fiction\, Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband\, a father\, a general\, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy.\nClinch will be in conversation with the CEO of the National Civil War Museum\, Jeffrey L. Nichols. This free event is in partnership with the National Civil War Museum.\n*Reminder: To enter the signing line\, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event\, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUlysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband\, a father\, a general\, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate work of “superb historical fiction” (Booklist\, starred review).\nBarely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat\, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words\, hour after hour\, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption\, Grant journeys back in time.\nHe had once been the savior of the Union\, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox\, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil rights of Black Americans and against the rising Ku Klux Klan\, a plain farmer-turned-business magnate who lost everything to a Wall Street swindler\, a devoted husband to his wife Julia\, and a loving father to four children. In this gorgeously rendered and moving novel\, Grant rises from the page in all of his contradictions and foibles\, his failures and triumphs.\\nMoving from blood-stained battlefields to Gilded Age New York\, the novel explores how Grant’s own views on race and Reconstruction changed over time. “A graceful\, moving narrative” (Kirkus Reviews\, starred review) from historical fiction master Jon Clinch\, this evocatively crafted novel breathes fresh life into an American icon.\nAbout the Speakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJon Clinch is the author of the acclaimed novels Finn\, Kings of the Earth\, The Thief of Auschwitz\, Belzoni Dreams of Egypt\, Marley\, and The General and Julia. A native of upstate New York\, Jon lives with his wife in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Find out more at JonClinch.com.\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey L. Nichols is the Chief Executive Officer of The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg\, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining The National Civil War Museum\, he was the Executive Director of Georgetown Heritage\, a philanthropic partner of the National Park Service in Washington\, DC\, and before that\, he was the President & CEO of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest\, Thomas Jefferson’s retreat house and plantation located near Lynchburg\, Virginia. He also worked at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford\, Connecticut\, in several roles\, serving as Executive Director for the final four years of his tenure there. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Southern Connecticut State University\, a Master of Science in Museum Education degree from the Bank Street College of Education\, and an MBA from the University of New Haven. He serves as Treasurer for PA Museums and has served on the board of Greater Lynchburg (VA) Habitat for Humanity and was the Treasurer of the Virginia Association of Museums.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/an-evening-with-jon-clinch-and-jeffrey-nichols-the-general-and-julia/
LOCATION:the Midtown Bookstore\, 1302 North 3rd St.\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lessons in History Presentation "Longstreet - The Confederate General Who Defied the South" with Dr. Elizabeth R. Varon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 2023 Lessons in History presentation with author Elizabeth R. Varon on December 9\, 2023\, 1:00 pm -2:00 pm. Ms. Varon will discuss her book\, LONGSTREET – The Confederate General Who Defied the South. \nElizabeth Varon’s LONGSTREET is a bold new biography that tells the story of the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War\, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle. After the war\, Longstreet moved to New Orleans\, where he dramatically changed course. He supported Black voting and joined the newly elected\, integrated postwar government in Louisiana. When white supremacists took up arms to oust that government\, Longstreet\, leading the interracial state militia\, did battle against former Confederates. His defiance ignited a firestorm of controversy\, as white Southerners branded him a race traitor and blamed him retroactively for the South’s defeat in the Civil War. Although he was one of the highest-ranking Confederate generals\, Longstreet has never been commemorated with statues or other memorials in the South because of his postwar actions in rejecting the Lost Cause mythology and urging racial reconciliation. \nLONGSTREET reintroduces Americans to one of the Civil War era’s best known\, but least understood\, figures. This is the first full biography in decades\, and the first to give proper attention to Longstreet’s long post-Civil War political career. Longstreet’s unusual life illuminates both the transformative changes and the entrenched inequalities of the Civil War era. Longstreet is being rediscovered in the new age of racial reckoning. Varon\, an acclaimed Civil War historian and author of the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize-winning book\, Armies of Deliverance\, demonstrates that Longstreet’s controversial choices have enduring relevance for our modern debates over American history. \n \n  \nAbout the Author: Dr. Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams professor of American history at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA’s John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon’s books include Southern Lady\, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew\, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy\, and Appomattox: Victory\, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. Her most recent book\, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War\, won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize \n  \n  \nThe 2023 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries. The National Civil War Museum will follow CDC and OSHA/HHS guidance as well as orders and recommendations from federal/state/local governments and our state and local health officials.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/lessons-in-history-presentation-longstreet-the-confederate-general-who-defied-the-south-with-dr-elizabeth-r-varon/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Commemorate Veterans Day with Free Admission to the NCWM
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, November 11\, 2023\, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm\, for a Community Free Day. There will be activities throughout the day and free of charge for all visitors. \n10:00 am – 10:20 am – Presentation of the Colors with Ephraim Slaughter American Legion Post #733 at The National Civil War Museum Bastion \n10:30 – 12:30 – KINdred Spirits GWG: Hidden Figures of Reconstruction – Join Dr. Sharonn Williams for a two-hour workshop on Genealogy\, learning to research about military and political figures. \n12:30 pm – 1:00 pm -A reading of “A Visit from Old Saint Nick” and discussion of the origins of Christmas by Mary Claus\, accompanied by Jody Hari speaking on Civil War soldier’s during the holidays in the Education Gallery. \n1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – United States Commission Cakewalk and discussion on the Sanitary Commission Fair by Sara Cleveland in the Rotunda. \nActivities 10:00 am – 2:00 pm \nOfficers and Ladies for the Union throughout the galleries \nU. S. Sanitary Commission display in the Cost of War Gallery \nCivil War Games with Eddie Roberts \nHarrisburg African American Quilters \nSew and Sign a Sanitary Commission Quilt with Audrey Trussell \nWe look forward to seeing you on November 11\, 2023
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/commemorate-veterans-day-with-a-free-admission-to-the-ncwm/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Civil Conversation with Jonathan W. White via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, November 9\, 2023\, at 7:00 pm for a CIVIL CONVERSATION. This is a live ZOOM event ~ Jonathan W. White\, author of “Shipwrecked A True Civil War Story of Mutinies\, Jailbreaks\, Blockade-Running\, and the Slave Trade” will engage in a Civil Conversation with NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols. Register here:  Civil Conversation with Dr. Jonathan W. White \n  \nAbout the book: Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith\, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments\, movements\, and individuals of the mid-19th century\, from the California Gold Rush\, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua\, Cuban liberation\, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly\, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith’s case as a lens\, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City\, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith\, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted\, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law\, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence\, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant\, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable\, fast-paced story\, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era. \n  \nAbout the book: “Final Resting Places” brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation – and how those meanings still influence still influence Americans today. In each essay\, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite – including large marble temples\, unmarked graves beneath the waves\, makeshift markers on battlefields\, mass graves on hillsides\, neat rows of military headstones\, university graveyards\, tombs without bodies\, and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of how someone lived and died: how they were mourned and remembered. Together\, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American History. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the speaker: Jonathan W. White is professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 13 books and more than 100 articles\, essays\, and reviews about the Civil War\, slavery and emancipation\, African American history\, Abraham Lincoln\, and the U.S. Constitution. His book Emancipation\, the Union Army\, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln was named a best book of 2014 by Civil War Monitor\, was a finalist for both the Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize and the Jefferson Davis Prize\, and won the Abraham Lincoln Institute’s 2015 book prize. Midnight in America: Darkness\, Sleep\, and Dreams during the Civil War was named a best book of 2017 by Civil War Monitor. His 2018 book\, “Our Little Monitor”: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War\, co-authored with Anna Gibson Holloway\, was a finalist for the Indie Book Awards and honorable mention for the John Lyman Book Award. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians\, serves on the Boards of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and the Abraham Lincoln Association\, and is the Vice Chair of The Lincoln Forum. He also serves on the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council\, the editorial board of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography\, and as editor of ​The Lincoln Forum Bulletin. In 2019 he won the Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia\, the highest award given to faculty in the Commonwealth. His most recent books are My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss (2021)\, which he co-edited with his student\, Lydia Davis; To Address You As My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (2021); and A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (2022). \nThis is an online-only event and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/a-civil-conversation-with-jonathan-w-white-via-zoom/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil War Book Talk with Dr. Ronald White via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Explore “On Great Fields\,” a new novel about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by author\, Dr. Ronald C. White. Join NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey L. Nichols\, for a live Zoom book talk with Dr. Ronald C. White on October 26 at 7:00 pm.\nJoin for free by clicking on this link: On Great Fields with Dr. Ronald C. White \nPurchase On Great Fields Here \nAbout the book: Before 1862\, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine\, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army\, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg\, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top\, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war\, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. \nHow did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain\, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious\, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service\, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? \nChamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara’s now-classic novel of the Civil War\, The Killer Angels\, and Ken Burns’s timeless miniseries The Civil War\, but in this book\, White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero. Heavily illustrated and featuring nine detailed maps\, this gripping\, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation’s bloodiest conflict. \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain\, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.\n\n“A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.”—Jon Meacham\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light \nRonald C. White is the New York Times bestselling author of biographies A. Lincoln and American Ulysses\, as well as three other books on Lincoln\, most recently Lincoln in Private. White earned his PhD at Princeton\, has lectured at the White House\, and has spoken about Lincoln across the world. He is a senior fellow of The Trinity Forum in Washington\, D.C. \n 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/dr-ronald-white-via-zoom-book-talk/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil War Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Civil War Saturday\n \n  \nSeptember 23\, 2023 – 10:00 am – 4:00 pm\nAdults – $10.00\nUnder 18 – Free\nCivil War Saturday is fun for the whole family. Join us at the tallest spot in Harrisburg for live reenactors\, cannon firing and demonstrations\, music with the Long Hill String Band\, CW games\, and so much more.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/civil-war-saturday/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cocktails & Cannonballs - An Evening at the Museum
DESCRIPTION:Cocktails & Cannonballs – An Evening at the Museum  \nImmerse yourself in Civil War history. Stroll through the galleries and sample cuisine from local caterers\, paired with Civil War-era-themed cocktails. Visit Civil War reenactors at their evening camps\, enjoy games\, best period costume prizes\, and a silent auction\, cigar bar\, raffle\, and trivia. Satisfy your sweet tooth by making s’mores over the campfire. The evening concludes with a live cannon firing in the park. \nFriday\,  September 22\, 2023 \n6:00 pm – 9:00 pm  \n$75 person – $50 members – $125 couple \nPurchase tickets here \nAll proceeds benefit The National Civil War Museum educational programs\, building fund\, and artifact preservation. \nThere are still sponsorships available. Please contact\nMary Beth Kerekes at mbkerekes@nationalcivilwarmuseum.org \n \n\nTrivia games hosted by Mare Fincher and Darin Weeks of the Civil War Breakfast Club podcast.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/cocktails-cannonballs-an-evening-at-the-museum/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 George Armstrong Custer Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Cost (in-person includes a boxed lunch): Non-members – $60.00 NCWM Members – $50.00 Register here to attend in person Zoom – $30.00 – Register here for the Zoom-only option \nWe are pleased to present the following speakers:\nJames Hessler – With Custer to the End: Captain George Yates – Among the Seventh Cavalry’s officers\, Captain George Yates does not receive the same attention as Reno\, Benteen\, Keogh\, Tom Custer\, or many others. Yet\, Yates had one of the longest-standing relationships with George Custer dating back to the Civil War\, and they died within only feet of each other on Last Stand Hill. Join Jim Hessler as we discuss the life and career of Captain George Yates\, from the Civil War\, through his wife’s ties to this region\, and to those final bloody moments in Montana. About the speaker – James Hessler originated the idea for this symposium. Jim has worked as a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg National Military Park for two decades. He authored or co-authored three full-length books on the Gettysburg campaign: Sickles at Gettysburg (2009)\, Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg (2015)\, and Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard (2019). His books received several distinguished book awards. Jim currently co-hosts the popular Battle of Gettysburg Podcast and has made numerous national media appearances. He has written several articles for publication and was one of the primary content designers for the American Battlefield Trust’s mobile Gettysburg application. Jim is a frequent speaker at Civil War Round Tables and other historical groups nationwide. In addition to Gettysburg\, he leads tours at several other historic sites including Little Bighorn. Jim currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Little Bighorn Associates. \nJeffry Wert – Fighting Was His Business – For George Armstrong Custer\, 1863 was a momentous year.  He rose from a staff officer to a brigadier general of volunteers in command of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade. By year’s end\, he had become one of the most renowned generals in the Cavalry Corps and the prospective husband to Elizabeth “Libbie” Bacon. About the speaker – Jeffry D. Wert is a retired high school history teacher and an award-winning Civil War historian\, who has written biographies of George Custer\, James Longstreet\, and Jeb Stuart.  He also has written books and articles on the campaigns and battles in the conflict’s Eastern Theater. \nSiobhan Fallon – The Battle AFTER the Little Bighorn: The Widow\, the Writer\, and the Man They Called Coward. Rumors and accusations began to swirl from the moment General Terry’s command arrived on Reno Hill and told the surviving members of the Seventh Cavalry that Custer was dead. Thought to have been assisted by Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer\, Frederick Whittaker would finish his A Complete Life General George A. Custer just six months later. Whittaker’s book claimed: “The massacre at the Little Big Horn was due to Reno’s cowardice and Benteen’s indifference.” It was Major Marcus Reno himself who requested a court of inquiry in Chicago in 1879. While Reno’s name was officially cleared\, the results of the Reno Court of Inquiry continue to add to the controversy surrounding the Little Bighorn fight. About the speaker – Siobhan Fallon is the author of the collection You Know When the Men Are Gone and the novel The Confusion of Languages. Her essays and stories have been featured in New York Times Modern Love\, Washington Post Magazine\, NPR’s Morning Edition\, Stars and Stripes\, The Huffington Post\, among others\, and have been performed by both national and international theater groups. An Army spouse\, Siobhan started researching military wives and became hooked on the life of Elizabeth Bacon Custer as well as everything Little Bighorn. She is currently at work on a book about the Reno Court of Inquiry. Siobhan also has a series on YouTube titled “The Lives of the Little Bighorn.” \nEric Wittenberg – George Armstrong Custer in the 1864 Overland Campaign – Eric J. Wittenberg will address George Custer’s crucial role in Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Overland Campaign\, addressing the Michigan Cavalry Brigade’s participation in one of the Civil War’s most important campaigns. About the speaker – Eric J. Wittenberg is an award-winning Civil War author whose specialty is Union cavalry actions. He is the author of 24 published books and dozens of articles\, most of which focus on the mounted arm. Educated at Dickinson College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law\, he is an attorney in private practice. Eric serves on the boards of the Little Big Horn Associates and Central Virginia Battlefields Trust\, and is the program coordinator for the Chambersburg Civil War Seminars and Tours. He and his wife Susan and their three golden retrievers live in Columbus\, Ohio.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/2023-george-armstrong-custer-symposium/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with CW Goodyear & Jeffrey Nichols: President Garfield
DESCRIPTION:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore and the National Civil War Museum are honored to welcome historian CW Goodyear to the Midtown Scholar Bookstore\, in Harrisburg\, for an in-person conversation and signing on his new biography\, President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier. In this magisterial biography\, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Goodyear will be in conversation with the CEO of the National Civil War Museum\, Jeffrey L. Nichols. \nWatch on YouTube Live Here \nAbout the Book: \nThe first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary\, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield. \nIn this magisterial biography\, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canal man; crooked election-fixer and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more. \nOver nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected President to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so. \nPresident Garfield is American history at its finest. It is about an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency; a progressive statesman\, trying to raise a more righteous\, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war; the tragically imperfect course of that reformation\, and the man himself; a martyr-President\, whose death succeeded in nudging the country back to cleaner\, calmer politics. \nThis free event is in partnership with the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. \nAbout the Author: C.W. Goodyear is an author and historian based in Washington\, DC. He was born in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, and grew up abroad before graduating from Yale University. \nAbout Jeffrey L. Nichols: Jeffrey L. Nichols is the Chief Executive Officer of The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg\, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining The National Civil War Museum\, he was the Executive Director of Georgetown Heritage\, a philanthropic partner of the National Park Service in Washington\, DC\, and before that\, he was the President & CEO of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest\, Thomas Jefferson’s retreat house and plantation located near Lynchburg\, Virginia. He also worked at The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford\, Connecticut\, in several roles\, serving as Executive Director for the final four years of his tenure there. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Southern Connecticut State University\, a Master of Science in Museum Education degree from the Bank Street College of Education\, and an MBA from the University of New Haven. He serves as Treasurer for PA Museums and has served on the board of Greater Lynchburg (VA) Habitat for Humanity and was the Treasurer of the Virginia Association of Museums.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/an-evening-with-cw-goodyear-jeffrey-nichols-president-garfield/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 Lessons in History Presentation with Scott Mingus
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 2023 Lessons in History presentation with author Scott L. Mingus on July 8\, 2023\, 1:00 pm -2:00 pm. Mingus will discuss his book “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania” \n  \nAbout the Author: Multiple award-winning author Scott Mingus is a retired scientist and executive in the global specialty paper industry. The Ohio native graduated from Miami University. He was part of the research team that developed the first commercially successful self-adhesive U.S. postage stamps\, and he was a pioneer in the early development of bar code labels. He has written more than 30 Civil War and Underground Railroad books and numerous articles for Gettysburg Magazine and other historical journals. He has appeared on C-SPAN\, C-SPAN3\, PBS\, PCN\, and several other TV networks. Mingus writes a blog on the Civil War history of York County\, PA\, where he and his wife Debi live. He also has written six scenario books for miniature wargaming. He received lifetime achievement awards from the York County History Center and the Camp Curtin Historical Society for his many contributions to local history. His books and wargaming scenario books have received or been nominated for numerous national awards. \nThe 2023 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries. The National Civil War Museum will follow CDC and OSHA/HHS guidance as well as orders and recommendations from federal/state/local governments and our state and local health officials.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/2023-lessons-in-history-presentation-with-scott-mingus/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Civil Conversation with Christopher Graham\, via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Graham will speak about his new book Faith\, Race\, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church in a Civil Conversation with NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols. About the speaker: Chris is from North Carolina and earned his PhD in American history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is currently a curator at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond\, Virginia\, where he lives with his wife. They are both members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. \nThis is an online-only event and is free and open to the public. Click here to register.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/a-civil-conversation-with-christopher-graham-via-zoom/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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